About
Shahroud Ghahani is an Iranian-Australian visual artist based on Gadigal land. Her artworks bridge together rich images from disparate cultures and her experiences of them.
She holds a Master of Art from the University of New South Wales ,Arts,Design and Architecture and has had her work exhibited in galleries across Sydney.
Her practice explores representations of the female body and themes of beauty, the grotesque, and identity within Eastern and Western traditions.
Her art is also inspired by explorations of metaphysical subjects. She interweaves dreamscapes, liminal and imaginary spaces, displaced objects and allegorical imagery.
She is the winner for the 2024 Grace Cossington Smith Biennial Art award in the local artist category in 2024. She was a finalist in Gosford Art Prize 2023 (Commendation award), Fisher's Ghost Art Prize 2022 and 2023 and 2024, Flow , Contemporary Art Prize 2023, CUT.N.POLISH( Carriageworks artist market) 2022, 2023, Arts in the Valley Art Prize, 2021, Hawkesbury Art Prize 2021, and a finalist for the 2018 and 2019 Kudos Emerging Artist Award .